Sentence examples for small abuses from inspiring English sources

In a cloistered setting, as in a school, small abuses of power rankle disproportionately, and small pleasures or circumventions of rules provide greater thrills.

When people are committed to a relationship, studies suggest, they usually content themselves with a perfunctory quid pro quo for the day's small abuses: He's not helping with the party, let him find his own food.

By a small abuse of notation, we use (Phi^) to denote the map (check {Phi}^) induced on the inductive limit spaces.

Despite being statistically significant, the magnitude of the associations was small; "abuse and family disruption" explained approximately 3% of the variance in OCS severity.

where r d is the location of the detector and (with a small abuse of notation) Φ i r, r s, λ) is used here to denote the incident field at position r and wavelength λ due to a delta-source located at r s.

But expect resistance; those of us with low self esteem tend to attract abuse - even small time abuse.

Now thousands of people take to the streets to protest not broad injustices (war, inequality) but specific perversions of process: the small-scale stuff, abuses that might have been be fixed up by heroes on the inside (as in "A Few Good Men") or washed away by major progress (as in "The West Wing").

He lives in the widow's house (her children are all grown up and living elsewhere), paying a small rent, abusing her servants & herself.

Siôn Simon, Labour's European spokesman on social affairs, also said it demonstrated that strong powers already existed to prevent a small minority abusing the system.

For instance, Liu et al. explored DNAm at 20,493 CpG sites in a small alcohol-abuse study (n = 197), identifying one gene on chromosome 4 to be significantly differentially methylated between men and women [ 9].

The 43-count grand jury indictment read like a primer in small-town abuse of power.